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• Province partners with Union of B.C. Municipalities to create child care spaces

  11-09-2018 23:56 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government will partner with B.C. municipalities to create almost 1,400 new licensed child care spaces, and undertake planning for more.
  On Tuesday, Minister of Children and Family Development Katrine Conroy said the government would work with the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) to administer almost $17 million in federal and provincial money.
  The funds were announced earlier this year as part of early learning and child care agreements with the federal government, but the rel
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Kinder Morgan protests raise public-interest bar

  11-09-2018 23:55 via vancouversun.com
  The Kinder Morgan megaproject may be stalled, but the province’s public-interest bar — lawyers like Neil Chantler who defend protesters — still have work to do.
  Although there have been no new charges, the Aug. 30 Federal Court of Appeal ruling that halted the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion did not stop contempt proceedings against those who opposed it.
  The prosecution service said 230 pipeline protesters were charged before the controversial court decision &mda
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of Sept. 8

  11-09-2018 23:01 via vancouversun.com
  Texas Ranger – by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. Texas Ranger — James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle
  2. The Fall of Gondolin — J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. The President is Missing — James Patterson and Bill Clinton
  4. Tailspin — Sandra Brown
  5. The Outsider — Stephen King
  6. Pieces of Her — Karin Slaughter
  7. Circe —  Madeline Miller
  8. Magic Triumphs — Ilona Andrews
  9. There There — Tommy Orange
  
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• Did you know? More than 73,000 people commute in and out of the North Shore every day? The Integrated North Shore T… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  Did you know? More than 73,000 people commute in and out of the North Shore every day? The Integrated North Shore T… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week of Sept. 8

  11-09-2018 22:55 via vancouversun.com
  1. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  2. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  3. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing). 
  4. 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia — Stephen Hui (Greystone Books).
  5. A Sorrowful Sanctuary — Iona Whishaw (TouchWood Editions).
  6. The Hidden Life of Trees: Illustrated Edition &
  
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• Hysteria devised for the Fringe

  11-09-2018 22:30 via vancouversun.com
  Hysteria
  When: Sept. 13 — 15, various times
  Where: Historic Theatre, The Cultch, 1895 Venables
  Tickets and info: Vancouverfringe.com
  Jill Raymond knew what she didn’t want when she set about creating Hysteria. The Richmond-based playwright had been in, and seen, her fair share of Fringe theatre shows.
  “There’s nothing wrong with one-woman shows about your dating life, I suppose, but there have been rather a few haven’t there?” said Raymond. “It all gets
  
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• Bail hearing for Hells Angel charged in murders adjourned

  11-09-2018 22:09 via vancouversun.com
  A bail hearing for a Hells Angel charged in connection with two murders was adjourned on Tuesday.
  Larry Amero, who is accused of conspiracy to commit the 2012 murders of rival gangsters Sandip Duhre and Sukh Dhak, appeared in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Tuesday for the first day of what was expected to be a three-day bail hearing.
  But the matter was adjourned after the judge was told that Amero’s lawyer had fallen ill. The next court appearance for Amero and his two co-accused, Dean Wi
  
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• Campfire ban lifted for southwesten B.C.

  11-09-2018 21:50 via vancouversun.com
  A campfire ban for southwestern B.C. has been rescinded.
  Beginning Tuesday at noon, campfires will be permitted again in the area west of the Coastal Mountain Range from the U.S. border at Manning Park, including Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park in the North, the Sunshine Coast, the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Haida Gwaii.
  Tiki torches, chimneys, stoves and portable campfire burners that are CSO-approved or ULC-approved are also permitted, though local governments
  
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• B.C. municipalities call on province to tackle real estate speculation

  11-09-2018 21:45
  
  As mayors meet for summit in Whistler, UBCM renews call for B.C. government to do more
  
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• The nomination period for the upcoming election is open until Friday at 4pm. So far, we have 4 candidates running f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 21:36 via twitter.com
  The nomination period for the upcoming election is open until Friday at 4pm. So far, we have 4 candidates running f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Violent offender plans to live in Metro Vancouver

  11-09-2018 21:05
  
  BC Corrections is warning the public on the day of Bryan Kelly’s release from custody.
  
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• We've got a Healthy Living Workshop led by Vancouver Coastal Health Sept 14 @ 10am. Learn about active living, heal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  We've got a Healthy Living Workshop led by Vancouver Coastal Health Sept 14 @ 10am. Learn about active living, heal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Wreckage of missing plane carrying pilot and girlfriend located near Revelstoke

  11-09-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  The wreckage of a plane that went missing in November 2017 has been located near Revelstoke.
  Revelstoke RCMP said they received notice late Monday that a B.C. Ambulance Service helicopter had spotted a plane crash nearby, and that the plane’s markings matched those of an aircraft that went missing last winter.
  In November 2017, pilot Dominique Neron and his girlfriend, Ashley Bourgeault, both from Alberta, took off from Penticton in a 1963 Mooney M20D propeller plane headed for Edmonton.
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• Two homes in Bella Coola damaged by deliberately set fires

  11-09-2018 19:59 via vancouversun.com
  BELLA COOLA — RCMP on British Columbia’s central coast hope someone has information that could help them crack an arson investigation.
  Bella Coola RCMP say four separate fires are believed to have been deliberately set in a subdivision on the Nuxalk Nation lands.
  The fires were set between June 10 and Sept. 2, all around the Four Mile subdivision, just east of Bella Coola.
  Two homes, an abandoned trailer and several gas cans were set ablaze.
  There is no word of injuries.
  A news relea
  
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• B.C. government abruptly replaces its top forestry official

  11-09-2018 19:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government has abruptly replaced its top forestry official amid what it calls changing priorities for its forest policies.
  Tim Sheldan, the deputy minister of forests, lands, natural resource operations and rural development, was removed from the job on Monday by Premier John Horgan’s deputy minister Don Wright, who is head of the civil service.
  “Making changes at the deputy minister level are always difficult calls to make,” Wright wrote in an in
  
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• Campfire ban lifted for Coastal Fire Centre

  11-09-2018 18:41 via vancouversun.com
  A campfire ban for the Coastal Fire Centre has been rescinded.
  Beginning Tuesday at noon, campfires will be permitted again throughout the Coastal Fire Centre.
  That includes the area west of the Coastal Mountain Range from the U.S. border at Manning Park, including Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park in the North, the Sunshine Coast, the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Haida Gwaii.
  Tiki torches, chimneys, stoves and portable campfire burners that are now CSO-approved or ULC-a
  
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• Immigration fuelling French-immersion demand as provinces vie for teachers

  11-09-2018 18:27 via vancouversun.com
  Back-to-school buzz only led to worry for a Vancouver father fretting about his daughter’s chances of getting into French immersion — a year before she starts kindergarten.
  Prokopi Klimos said hearing about parents having to put their kids’ names on long wait lists at multiple schools has him concerned about whether his family will have to move if Helen, who is 3 1/2, gets a spot far from their home.
  “It’s so competitive and that’s why this September has spurr
  
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• Time is running out to apply for a Community Grant. See if your group/organization is eligible:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Time is running out to apply for a Community Grant. See if your group/organization is eligible:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Daily Poll: How much would a 4.5 per cent rent increase affect you?

  11-09-2018 16:41 via vancouversun.com
  The Residential Tenancy Branch recently announced the maximum allowable rent increase for 2019 would be set at 4.5 per cent.
  That news has left many renters frustrated in an already challenging rental market where housing costs are sky-high and show no signs of slowing down.
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  B.C. rents could rise up to 4.5 per cent next yearNDP promise of $400 renters rebate turns into 4.5 per cent rent hikeTake Our Poll
  
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• $1.8-million PNE prize home won by Vancouver Public Library staffer

  11-09-2018 05:06 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver resident Keith Edwards is the winner of the 84th annual PNE Prize Home draw.
  Edwards is now the new owner of a $1.8-million, 3,025 square-foot modular house and lake-view lot in Naramata.
  Related
  PNE's 2018 prize home designed with focus on sustainability
  A winning ticket belonging to the Vancouver Public Library worker was pulled Monday night from more than 620,000 entries.
  : Councillor Raymond Louie (L) announces the winning ticket for the 2018 PNE Prize Home alongside PNE VP of Oper
  
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• Provincial registry of property owners should have more information: UBCM

  11-09-2018 04:32 via vancouversun.com
  The Union of B.C. Municipalities is calling on the province to collect more information through a provincial registry designed to improve transparency in the real estate market.
  The details of the registry — which is supposed to identify anonymous beneficial owners of real estate, such as numbered companies, blind trusts and corporations — were outlined in a policy paper by the province in June. The paper also contained a draft of the proposed Land Owner Transparency Act.
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• Ian Campbell drops out of Vancouver mayoral race

  11-09-2018 04:01
  
  With just days before the nomination deadline, Vision Vancouver candidate Ian Campbell announced late Monday afternoon that he is no longer running to be the city's next mayor.
  
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• NDP promise of $400 renters rebate turns into 4.5 per cent rent hike

  11-09-2018 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  Rosella Bernard has had a tough enough time finding an affordable apartment in the Vancouver area for her and her daughter without facing the a 4.5 per cent rent hike next year.
  “It’s really hard budgeting for rent,” said Bernard. She moved into an emergency shelter with daughter Sapphire Goodswimmer, 15, at the end of August when she could no longer afford the $2,400 rent at her last apartment.
  Bernard, who’s attending the Native Education College and B.C. Justice Instit
  
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• 'The whole thing raises big issues of security': At Burnaby's Central Park, questions linger over slain teen

  11-09-2018 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  More than a year after Marrisa Shen’s body was found in Burnaby’s Central Park, her presence is still felt.
  Three small memorials adorned with flowers, stuffed animals and Shen’s photo, remain in the southeast corner of the park — a reminder of the 13-year-old who disappeared one summer night in July 2017, kicking off one of the most intensive murder investigations by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
  “I feel very sad when I walk down the spot where she wa
  
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• Capilano University celebrates 50 years

  11-09-2018 03:12 via vancouversun.com
  Chemistry professor Penny Le Couteur moved to Vancouver in 1968. Needing a job, she applied at the new Capilano College on the North Shore.
  “I walked in on a Friday and the dean said, ‘Oh, I haven’t interviewed anybody in science yet, and classes start Monday,’” she recounts with a laugh. “So I got a job.”
  That was Sept. 10, 1968. Fifty years later, she returned to Cap on Monday for a golden anniversary celebration where they gave out cheesies, cupcakes
  
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• Hysteria is a musical devised for the Fringe

  11-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Hysteria
  When: Sept. 13 — 15, various times
  Where: Historic Theatre, The Cultch, 1895 Venables
  Tickets and info: Vancouverfringe.com
  Jill Raymond knew what she didn’t want when she set about creating Hysteria. The Richmond-based playwright had been in, and seen, her fair share of Fringe theatre shows.
  “There’s nothing wrong with one-woman shows about your dating life, I suppose, but there have been rather a few haven’t there?” said Raymond. “It all gets
  
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• Vision candidate Ian Campbell withdraws from race for mayor of Vancouver

  11-09-2018 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  You can scratch Ian Campbell’s name off the ballot.
  Campbell, who was acclaimed by Vision as the party’s mayoral candidate in June, announced Monday that he is withdrawing his name from the race for Mayor of Vancouver.
  “With the deadline quickly approaching to formally enter the race, I’ve reflected on the political landscape and my complicated personal journey.  When I put all these pieces together, it seems clear that the best choice is for me to withdraw as candid
  
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• Provincial program provides money to protect B.C. communities from fires

  11-09-2018 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  WHISTLER — Local governments and First Nations across B.C. at risk from wildfires can now apply for provincial money to conduct fire prevention activities on land around their communities.
  The Community Resiliency Investment Program will provide up to $50 million over three years to local governments and First Nations. Up to $10 million will be available in the 2018/19 fiscal year, with $20 million earmarked for each of the next two years.
  The details of the program, which was announced in
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Rent-hike shock exposes dilemma for NDP

  11-09-2018 02:13 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Though the New Democrats promised to make renting “more affordable, fairer and more stable” in the last election, they stopped short of calling for tighter controls or even an outright freeze on rent increases.
  Instead, tenants squeezed by year after year increases were promised an annual rebate of $400 a year.
  “Homeowners get a break on their property taxes each year, “ said party Leader John Horgan. “Renters deserve a break too, especially wi
  
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• Seven-term city councillor Rod Clark running for North Vancouver mayor

  11-09-2018 01:52 via vancouversun.com
  Rod Clark, a seven-term North Vancouver city councillor, has announced he will be running for mayor in the Oct. 20 municipal election.
  Clark is one of three current councillors — along with Linda Buchanan and Guy Heywood — who are looking to replace outgoing City of North Vancouver mayor Darrell Mussatto, who announced earlier this year that he would not seek re-election.
  Mussatto served on the city’s council for nearly 25 years, first as a councillor for four terms, then four
  
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• Michael Caine returns to the swinging sixties with new documentary My Generation

  11-09-2018 01:51 via vancouversun.com
  In My Generation, the new documentary about London during the swinging sixties, actor Michael Caine talks about an unofficial job he had.
  Caine says he did “air traffic control” for a friend. And by air traffic control he means he was safely keeping “birds,” a.k.a. women his friend was dating from bumping into each other as they came and went in and out of the apartment.
  In the film the playboy’s name is not revealed, but this week during a phone interview the 85-ye
  
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• B.C. Hydro misled regulator about technology program, report says

  11-09-2018 01:50 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Hydro misled the province’s independent regulator about an expensive technology program, thereby avoiding scrutiny on how it spent millions of dollars in public money, according to a report by the B.C. Utilities Commission.
  The Crown power corporation gave inaccurate testimony to regulators about the software it had chosen, called SAP, for an information technology project that has cost $197 million, said the report, released Friday.
  “The way the SAP decisi
  
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• Reminder: No Council meeting today due to @UBCM conference. Council is back in session September 17.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Reminder: No Council meeting today due to @UBCM conference. Council is back in session September 17.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 'I kill wife,' accused tells 911 operator in call played in court

  11-09-2018 01:28 via vancouversun.com
  A dramatic 911 recording of a Burnaby man confessing to killing his wife was played at the opening of the accused’s trial in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday.
  Parveen Maan, 48, has pleaded not guilty to the February 2017 second-degree murder of his wife, Parveen “Goldie” Maan, 45, at the couple’s home.
  On the day of the slaying, Maan, a father of two, placed a 911 call in the early afternoon asking police to come to the family home in the 7900-block of 18th Ave.
  “Okay,
  
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• Fishing lodge breaks from mooring, runs aground on Haida Gwaii

  11-09-2018 01:23 via vancouversun.com
  QUEEN CHARLOTTE — The company that owns a floating fishing lodge that ran aground in British Columbia near the Haida Gwaii village of Queen Charlotte says it poses no current environmental threat.
  In a news release, HaiCo says it’s still unclear how its Westcoast Resorts’ Hippa barge anchored at Alliford Bay came loose from its mooring Saturday night with one staff member aboard.
  It says after drifting over several hours toward Skidgate Inlet, the barge became beached and fract
  
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• These are the four winners in Vancouver's bike rack design contest

  11-09-2018 01:16 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver has selected its four winning designs in the city’s bike rack design contest.
  The city culled down 450 design submissions to six finalists and the public was asked to test the prototypes and then vote at one of four locations across the city.
  A jury was then assigned to pick the best of the pack and award the winning designers with $2,000 each.
  The contest winners will receive $2,000 each. Finalists not selected as a winner will receive $500. The People&rsqu
  
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• Last month, we ran a successful pilot program with @northshorebears to try reducing the number of human-bear inte… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 01:03 via twitter.com
  Last month, we ran a successful pilot program with @northshorebears to try reducing the number of human-bear inte… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Restaurant news: Tap & Barrel purchases Granville Island's Bridges

  11-09-2018 00:24 via vancouversun.com
  In his seemingly ongoing quest to own all of Vancouver’s best patios, Tap & Barrel founder Daniel Frankel announced Monday that he has purchased the iconic Bridges Restaurant on Granville Island.
  In a press release, Frankel says the upper floor fine dining area will continue to operate as Bridges but the groundfoor pub, bistro and patio will be reinvented as a “space with a local-centric concept focused on environmental stewardship and supporting local producers and art
  
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• Theatre review: Eclecticism rules at 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival

  11-09-2018 00:15 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Fringe Festival
  When: To Sept. 16
  Where: Various venues
  Tickets & and info: $15; vancouverfringe.com
  The 34th annual Vancouver Fringe Festival is as eclectic as ever with 90 shows from local, national and international theatre companies — or increasingly, individual theatre artists — competing for attention. My goal: to see a range of shows as different from one another as possible.
  Vancouver’s Tom Jones is Woody Guthrie in Woody Sed.
  Woody SedWhere: The Cultch Hi
  
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• UBCM opening act: how municipalities can improve relations with First Nations groups

  11-09-2018 00:11
  
  Whistler shares what it learned when its community plan was challenged in court as convention of local B.C. governments gets underway.l
  
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